Monday, March 2, 2009

Lots of rain and...oh wait- SNOW?!

So, Saturday- Feb. 28th- we had some CRAZY weather! There were tornado warnings all around us (apparently, one touched down just a few miles from here. It rained like crazy! Our yard was so flooded- it looked like we lived on beach front property! Here are some pictures while it was still raining:

This might not look like much, but I went out there and stood in the puddle, the fence was forming a dam and the puddle went almost to my knees....
This is probably a good 6 inches of water...

Well, after the rain stopped, we all went outside to look at the damage. We were in shorts and tee shirts- it was like 75 degrees.... BUT we woke up on Sunday to....

SNOW!!!!! March 1st in Alabama, and we got about 6 inches of snow.


Mary and our neighbor, Robert playing in the snow (keep in mind this is about 9:30 in the morning...It had pretty much just started snowing)


"Brrrrrrrr"


Richard building a snowman (Notice there is already more snow!)




Mary- eating the snowmans nose


Mary and Robert by the snowman




She wanted to go back outside!



CHEESE!



Our yard!!




Our house from the front




We figured this was a good time to lite a fire! Our first fire in the fireplace!!




After the almost blizzard like conditions, we went back outside



She was trying to make a snowball








Chasing Mommy ("I can't put my arms downnnnnn!")






Snow covered ground...






I was trying to get a picture to show just how deep it was...this doesn't really do it justice



Mary trying to make a snow angel








Eating snow

She kept saying "Yummy!" (I made sure it was WHITE snow....)